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Report Stage Proceedings: 30th April 2008                

408

 

Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  34

 

Page  13,  line  34  [Clause  25],  leave out subsection (5).

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  35

 

Page  14,  line  14  [Clause  26],  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

This section applies in relation to the Scottish Ministers and the functions of the

 

Scottish Ministers under this Chapter as it applies in relation to the Secretary of

 

State and the functions of the Secretary of State under this Chapter.’.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  36

 

Page  15,  line  1  [Clause  28],  leave out from ‘if’ to end of line 5 and insert ‘—

 

‘(a)    

the Secretary of State thinks that disclosure of the information would be

 

contrary to the interests of national security, or

 

(b)    

the licensing authority thinks that disclosure of the information would

 

prejudice to an unreasonable degree a person’s commercial interests.’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  37

 

Page  15,  line  9  [Clause  28],  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘licensing

 

authority’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  38

 

Page  15,  line  10  [Clause  28],  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘licensing

 

authority’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  39

 

Page  15,  line  28  [Clause  29],  at end insert ‘, subject to subsections (1A) and (2).

 

(1A)    

In relation to a carbon storage installation established or maintained at a

 

controlled place under a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers—

 

(a)    

the functions conferred on the Secretary of State by Part 4 of the 1998 Act

 

are exercisable by the Scottish Ministers rather than the Secretary of State

 

(and, accordingly, the reference in section 39(6) of the 1998 Act to either

 

House of Parliament is to be read as a reference to the Scottish

 

Parliament), and

 

(b)    

the Scottish Ministers may make regulations providing that that Part

 

applies with such other modifications as may be specified in the

 

regulations.

 

(1B)    

For the purposes of subsection (1A), orders under section 32(1) are to be

 

disregarded and installations used for a purpose ancillary to getting petroleum

 

(within the meaning of section 1 of the 1998 Act) are not to be treated as carbon

 

storage installations.’.


 
 

Report Stage Proceedings: 30th April 2008                

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Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  40

 

Page  15,  line  29  [Clause  29],  leave out ‘But’ and insert ‘In relation to any other

 

carbon storage installation’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  41

 

Page  15,  line  30  [Clause  29],  leave out ‘a carbon storage’ and insert ‘such an’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  42

 

Page  15,  line  37  [Clause  30],  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘licensing

 

authority’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  43

 

Page  15,  line  39  [Clause  30],  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘licensing

 

authority’.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  44

 

Page  17,  line  19  [Clause  33],  at end insert—

 

‘(8)    

This section applies in relation to the Scottish Ministers and any functions

 

conferred on them by or under this Chapter as it applies in relation to the

 

Secretary of State and any functions conferred on the Secretary of State by or

 

under this Chapter, except that—

 

(a)    

in its application to the Scottish Ministers the reference in subsection

 

(4)(b) to the Consolidated Fund is to be read as a reference to the Scottish

 

Consolidated Fund, and

 

(b)    

the reference in that subsection to section 188 of the Energy Act 2004 is

 

to be read as a reference to that section as applied and modified by

 

subsection (12) (inserted by paragraph 13(e) of Schedule 1 to this Act).’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  45

 

Page  17,  line  33  [Clause  34],  at end insert—

 

‘“licensing authority” has the meaning given by section 17(1A).’.

 


 

Mr John Grogan

 

Not selected  66

 

Page  19  [Clause  36],  leave out lines 5 to 12.

 



 
 

Report Stage Proceedings: 30th April 2008                

410

 

Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Mike Weir

 

Not called  1

 

Page  24,  line  44  [Clause  36],  leave out subsections (4) and (5).

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  46

 

Page  55,  line  47  [Clause  67],  at end insert—

 

‘(7)    

In section 31 of that Act (notices: supplementary provision), before subsection (1)

 

insert—

 

“(A1)    

The Secretary of State may not give a notice under section 29(1) in

 

relation to an offshore installation to a person (“P”) who, in relation to the

 

installation, falls within paragraph (b) or (c) of section 30(1), if—

 

(a)    

P is not entitled to derive, and never has been entitled to derive,

 

any financial or other benefit from the installation, and

 

(b)    

P is not, and never has been, a person within section 30(1)(a),

 

(ba), (d) or (e) in relation to the installation.

 

(B1)    

The Secretary of State may not give a notice under section 29(1) in

 

relation to an offshore installation to a body corporate if—

 

(a)    

the body corporate falls within paragraph (e) of section 30(1)

 

(and no other paragraph of that section), and

 

(b)    

the body corporate falls within that paragraph by reason only that

 

it is associated (within the meaning given by section 30(8)) with

 

a person to whom the Secretary of State may not give a notice in

 

relation to the installation by virtue of subsection (A1).”

 

(8)    

In section 34 of that Act (revision of programmes), after subsection (3) insert—

 

“(3A)    

A proposal that a person who is or has been within paragraph (b) or (c)

 

of section 30(1) is to have a duty to secure that a programme is carried

 

out may not be made if the Secretary of State would be prevented from

 

giving a notice under section 29(1) to the person by virtue of section

 

31(A1) if the programme had not already been approved under this

 

section.”’.

 


 

Charles Hendry

 

Mr John Baron

 

Not called  65

 

Page  69,  line  16,  leave out Clause 78.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  47

 

Page  76,  line  16  [Clause  88],  after ‘Secretary of State’, insert ‘or the Scottish

 

Ministers’.


 
 

Report Stage Proceedings: 30th April 2008                

411

 

Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  48

 

Page  76,  line  29  [Clause  88],  after ‘Secretary of State’, insert ‘or the Scottish

 

Ministers’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  49

 

Page  76,  line  33  [Clause  88],  after ‘Act’, insert ‘or an Act of the Scottish

 

Parliament’.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  50

 

Page  77,  line  5  [Clause  89],  after ‘section’, insert ‘[Smart meters:

 

supplemental](3)’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  51

 

Page  77,  line  5  [Clause  89],  after ‘Act’ insert ‘or an Act of the Scottish Parliament’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  52

 

Page  77,  line  11  [Clause  89],  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

In the case of a statutory instrument containing an order or regulations made by

 

the Scottish Ministers, this section has effect as if—

 

(a)    

in subsection (1) the reference to either House of Parliament were a

 

reference to the Scottish Parliament,

 

(b)    

in subsection (2)(b) for “91(2)(a)” there were substituted “91(3)(a)”, and

 

(c)    

in subsection (3) the reference to each House of Parliament were a

 

reference to the Scottish Parliament.’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  53

 

Page  77  [Clause  91],  leave out lines 21 to 23 and insert—

 

‘(a)    

an Act, or Act of the Scottish Parliament, passed before the end of the

 

session in which this Act was passed, or

 

(b)    

an instrument made before the end of that session,’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  54

 

Page  77,  line  24  [Clause  91],  at end insert—

 

‘(3)    

The Scottish Ministers may by order make such modifications of—

 

(a)    

an Act, or Act of the Scottish Parliament, passed before the end of the

 

session in which this Act was passed, or

 

(b)    

an instrument made before the end of that session,

 

    

as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate in consequence of Chapter 3 of Part

 

1 of this Act as that Chapter applies in relation to the territorial sea adjacent to

 

Scotland (within the meaning of that Chapter) or in relation to functions of the

 

Scottish Ministers.’.


 
 

Report Stage Proceedings: 30th April 2008                

412

 

Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  55

 

Page  77,  line  30  [Clause  93],  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

The Scottish Ministers may by order make any transitional, transitory or saving

 

provision which appears appropriate in consequence of, or otherwise in

 

connection with, Chapter 3 of Part 1 of this Act as that Chapter applies in relation

 

to the territorial sea adjacent to Scotland (within the meaning of that Chapter) or

 

in relation to functions of the Scottish Ministers.’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  56

 

Page  77,  line  31  [Clause  93],  after ‘(1)’, insert ‘or (1A)’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  57

 

Page  77  [Clause  93],  leave out lines 33 to 35 and insert—

 

‘(a)    

an Act, or Act of the Scottish Parliament, passed before the end of the

 

session in which this Act was passed, or

 

(b)    

an instrument made before the end of that session.’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  58

 

Page  77,  line  39  [Clause  94],  after ‘sections’, insert ‘, [Power to amend licence

 

conditions: smart meters], [Power to amend licence conditions: procedure], [Smart

 

meters: supplemental] (and sections 88 and 89 in so far as those sections apply in relation

 

to orders made under section [Smart meters: supplemental](3)),’.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  59

 

Page  78,  line  33  [Clause  96],  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

sections [Power to amend licence conditions: smart meters], [Power to

 

amend licence conditions: procedure] and [Smart meters: supplemental]

 

(smart meters).’.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  60

 

Page  80,  line  19  [Schedule  1],  leave out ‘as mentioned in that subsection’ and insert

 

‘in the course of carrying out an activity for which a licence under section 3 of the Energy

 

Act 2008 is required’.

 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  61

 

Page  80,  line  25  [Schedule  1],  at end insert—

 

‘(5)    

Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to anything done in, under or over the

 

territorial sea adjacent to Wales or Northern Ireland in the course of carrying on


 
 

Report Stage Proceedings: 30th April 2008                

413

 

Energy Bill, continued

 
 

an activity for which a licence under section 17 of the Energy Act 2008 is

 

required.’.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  62

 

Page  84,  line  10  [Schedule  1],  at end insert—

 

‘(e)    

after subsection (11) insert—

 

“(12)    

This section applies in relation to the Scottish Ministers as it

 

applies in relation to the Secretary of State, and in its

 

application to the Scottish Ministers it is to be read as if for

 

subsections (6) and (7) there were substituted—

 

  “(6)  

Regulations under this section must be made by statutory

 

instrument and are subject to annulment in pursuance of a

 

resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

 

      (7)  

Section 192(4) applies in relation to the power of the

 

Scottish Ministers to make regulations under subsection (6)

 

as it applies in relation to an order or regulations made by

 

the Secretary of State or the Treasury.

 

    (7A)  

The references in this section to relevant energy functions

 

are references to the functions of the Scottish Ministers

 

under—

 

(a)    

Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2008, or

 

(b)    

so much of any Community instrument as has

 

effect in connection with—

 

(i)    

any activity mentioned in subsection

 

(8)(db), or

 

(ii)    

any activity mentioned in subsection

 

(8)(h) to the extent that the activity is

 

carried on in connection with an activity

 

mentioned in subsection (8)(db).”,

 

            

and as if the reference in subsection (11) to the

 

Consolidated Fund were a reference to the Scottish

 

Consolidated Fund.”’.

 


 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  63

 

Page  130,  line  34  [Schedule  4],  at end insert—

 

‘5A      

In section 34 (revision of programmes)—

 

(a)    

in subsection (2)(a), after “(b)” insert “(ba),”, and

 

(b)    

in subsection (3) omit “(d) or”.’.

 



 
 

Report Stage Proceedings: 30th April 2008                

414

 

Energy Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Secretary Hutton

 

Agreed to  64

 

Page  132,  line  9  [Schedule  5],  at end insert—

  

‘In section 34(3), “(d) or”.’.

 
 

Bill read the third time, and passed.

 


 
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